Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

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Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Ben Cain » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:55 am

Much more to come over the next few months...
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Gulliver63 » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:17 am

Really nice work...good to see more crystals! Nice!
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by kaspired » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:54 am

I like these. Lots going on, and lookitthat! Anatomy!

And also, somebody new! Yay!
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Terry Y » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:49 am

Welcome, Ben!

As for the arts you posted, they're pretty good, though a bit on the overly-muscular side, which can be visually distracting.

Good effort, though, and it's great to see new people and new art!
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Ben Cain » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:53 pm

Thanks for the comments! Regarding the muscles, I don’t draw all the Futurama characters that way. I aim for a balance of realism with on-model accuracy. Leela is supposed to be athletic, so I draw her with muscles, but not nearly with as many muscles as an Amazonian! I give Fry 20 extra pounds and Zapp something like a plumber’s build, with a stout upper body and a large potbelly. I draw Amy skinnier than Leela.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by archonix » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:15 am

Regarding the muscles, I see what you're aiming at and it mostly works. I feel you could perfect it by looking at losing just a couple of lines. For example, in the second picture, there's a line on her right arm that doesn't match up to any real muscle and i kind of throws the whole thing a bit skew.

That aside, you have a vety good eye for colour and some great poses. Marvelous stuff.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Ben Cain » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:28 pm

I hope a little tasteful nudity is alright. Pulled out the digital oils for this one.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Terry Y » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:33 pm

That's a little more adult than what we normally have. I'll leave it up to the Mods as to whether to take it down or not. In the meantime, I put it under a spoiler tag.

In the future, please run any such questions about content by the Admins or Mods. We're happy to assist you.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Ben Cain » Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:43 am

Thanks, Terry. Didn't mean to offend anyone and I didn't know about the spoiler tag. I'll definitely ask an admin or a moderator next time before I post something questionable.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Terry Y » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:54 am

Ben Cain wrote:Thanks, Terry. Didn't mean to offend anyone and I didn't know about the spoiler tag. I'll definitely ask an admin or a moderator next time before I post something questionable.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by archonix » Thu Oct 06, 2011 5:26 pm

Which reminds me of a feature I was going to work on but never got around to...

Anyway! Not bad. :)
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by kaspired » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:37 am

Ben Cain wrote: ...Zapp something like a plumber’s build, with a stout upper body and a large potbelly.
I could see Zapp as a plumber really easily. Oh no, wait, he's not going to bend over and show off his butt crack is he? Never mind, bad idea...
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Ben Cain » Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:10 am

Here's one of Leela piloting her mecha.
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Terry Y » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:42 am

If anyone can pilot a mecha, I believe Leela can.

Good job!
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Re: Ben Cain's Futurama Fan Art

Post by Gulliver63 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:38 pm

That is a very nice job, and a lot of attention was paid to the cockpit. I don't know an awful lot about mecha, but I am a huge fan of "Escaflowne." Here is my version of Leela as Hitome http://gulliver63.deviantart.com/galler ... 6#/d3jsgoj .
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